“Bloomberg’s $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.”
– Jeff Goodell
“Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.”
– Charles Babbage
“One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America’s energy problems never give up.”
– Jeff Goodell
“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn’t afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can’t afford power you’re pretty broke. You endure it.”
– Jeremy Renner
“A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.”
– Charles Babbage
“I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son’s school so they know I’m not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from ‘The View.’ Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.”
– Sherri Shepherd
“The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.”
– Ron Wyden
“The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.”
– Thomas Malthus
“Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we’re talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade’s non-teen culture has no staying power at all.”
– Rob Sheffield
“I consider ‘Dr. Horrible’ a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else’s hands and changing the world.”
– Nathan Fillion
“What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.”
– Freeman Dyson
“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.”
– Muqtada al Sadr
“I’ve become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I’m actually doing and what I actually deserve.”
– Nate Silver
“Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs – and we do so through the power of prayer.”
– Nick Rahall
“I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.”
– Lauryn Hill
“Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.”
– Jeff Goodell
“The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.”
– Jon Meacham
“Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.”
– E. Stanley Jones
“The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.”
– Jon Meacham
“Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.”
– Rainn Wilson
“When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.”
– Maggie Gallagher
“When it comes to energy, cost isn’t everything – but it’s a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.”
– Jeff Goodell
“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
– Amy Tan
“This is the pain pacemaker. I’ve got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It’s tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?”
– Jerry Lewis
“I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.”
– Nathan Fillion
“In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.”
– Jeff Goodell
“Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.”
– Tony Blair
“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
– Charles de Montesquieu
“In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.”
– Jean Baudrillard
“Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry’s worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.”
– Jeff Goodell